NOAA’s new guidelines to end overfishing
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service has issued new guidelines both for recreational and commercial to end overfishing.
Booming oyster aquaculture business
Oyster aquaculture business is gaining momentum in North Carolina as its market is viable and largely unexplored.
Shellfish biologists research on crab habitat in Canada
Marine scientists in Canada have been deployed to study the crab populations in reserved marine sanctuaries off the coast of Vancouver Island.
New York witness fish farming
Local Ocean, LLC, a seafood manufacturing company, plans to establish a controlled environment aquaculture fish farming project in New York’s Capital Region.
Farming in Nova Scotia could be disaster
Fishermen predict that farming in Nova Scotia can be very risky due to rise in pollution off Port Mouton Bay.
Commission rebuts Ombudsman’s recommendation concerning quotas for West of Scotland.
The Commission has received the Ombudsman's draft recommendation wherein he asks the Commission to rectify an administrative error concerning fishing quotas in the West of Scotland allocated for the year 2007.
UK Beam Trawler to Pay £13,700 for Mis-recording and Retaining Megrim
The owners and master of the Cornish beam trawler Admiral Gordon pleaded guilty on February 26 to two fishing offences in a case brought by the Marine and Fisheries Agency.
Breaking news in fishery biology: the case of the adult eel
Adult (i.e. sexually mature) eels have been avoiding capture for the nearly 100 years that they have been studied. Now, Japanese scientists have become the first to capture an adult…
First MSC-certified Norwegian cod and haddock
After successfully completing its Marine Stewardship Council [1] assessment, Domstein Longline Partners cod and haddock longline fisheries today became MSC certified. As a result, 5,000MT of Norwegian cod and 3,000MT…
MSC status for Domstein Longliner Partners North East Arctic haddock
Domstein Longliner Partners North East Arctic haddock has been successfully certified as sustainable on 27th February 2009.
